Archive for November, 2009

The Elektra Kappa WTS is the new Elektra espresso coffee machine that has revolutionized a tradition. Thanks to a precise electronic brewing pressure and temperature control and to an innovative water softening systems that eliminates chlorine, calcium and magnesium salts from the water.

A rational, ergonomic design, with spacious separate coffee/steam work areas; a wide variety of customized functions and monitoring of operating parameters on the diplay. Extreme reliability: equipped with a system that protects it from malfunctions and manages a preventive maintenance programme, thereby minimizing costs.

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12 oz Coffee Cup Tom Green Rap

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US police are hunting a gunman who shot dead four police officers in a coffee shop in Washington state.

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Bill Murray, RZA and GZA from Wutang Clan talk it out in a cafe. Brilliant scene from JIM JARMUSChs little masterpiece “Coffee and Cigarettes” from 2002.

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America is being bombarded by 16 ounce lattes and mega energy drinks. It is now acceptable for our youth to consume several sugary coffee drinks or highly caffeinated energy drinks each day. Health officials will soon admit what I have been known to be brewing the last several years: We are a nation low on energy and in need of quick fixes!

Are you low on energy? You must not be alone. Coffee and energy drinks have become big business in this country. There seems to be a high profile espresso shop on every down town corner and in every large office building. The other day I walked into a convenience store and counted the energy drinks offered in the cooler. I was amazed to find 32 different brands and types being offered. (I live near a large college campus.) Energy drinks are now part of the American Culture. “Do more and get more.”

Why are health officials concerned about this new “coffee and energy drink culture”? Highly caffeinated and sugary drinks quickly deplete our natural energy abilities. Caffeine tells the adrenal glands to produce more adrenaline. One big problem. We do not have an unlimited store of energy in our bodies. Energy reserves are restored by proper sleep, low stress and a proper diet. More than one or two cups of coffee a day is going to eventually empty the your natural energy reserves.

By drinking more than two or three coffee drinks a day you are robbing your body of the ability to keep a worthwhile store of energy available for use. It is a brutal cycle. The more coffee and energy drinks you consume, the less energy you actually have in your natural energy bank. Too much coffee and energy drinks causes poor sleep, detrimental weight gain and also weakens your immune abilities.

Don’t get me wrong, an occasional coffee or energy drink will not kill you. Just like alcohol, beer and wine you must use moderation. The less you consume (both alcohol and caffeine) the healthier you will be. Here are five things you can do to push the energy balance in your favor:

1. Get proper sleep. Much harder than it sounds. When your body “tells” you that it is tired, that means it is time to recharge, not refill your coffee cup. Try not to consume caffeine after noon time. Caffeine can stay in your system for eighteen to thirty hours and disrupt proper sleep.

2. Stay away from high simple sugar content foods such as sodas. Simple sugars elevate then drop your blood glucose levels. This is very hard on the body and leads to more damaging diseases down the road.

3. Add a good green superfood to your diet. Because most of us consume a very processed diet we are missing many of the trace minerals and micro nutrients our system needs to achieve maximum energy and immunity levels.

4. Add adrenal building herbs to your diet to help rebuild your energy storing glands, the adrenals. Some good examples, ginseng, licorice, cayenne, garlic, gotu kola and hawthorne berry. By drinking less caffeine and adding some of these adrenal building herbs as your daily supplements you will be surprised at how this will help you get more from just one cup of coffee versus needing three or four to keep going.

5. If you need a boost from caffeine try something that contains guarana. Guarana is similar to caffeine, but it releases its energy more slowly and evenly into your system. This does not give you the energy roller coaster effect that most people experience when drinking high doses of caffeine.

Marty Meshek
http://www.articlesbase.com/nutrition-articles/is-caffeine-the-next-nutritional-border-for-our-country-128495.html

There is no need to settle for inferior coffee, whether you are at home or away. It takes a little extra care, but you have to do more than just expect the water to drip through the ground coffee. If you take just a few extra steps, you will make the best tasting and freshest coffee you have ever had.

The first step is to have fresh, cold water in the coffee machine. Do not use warm water or water that has been boiled. Truly fussy coffee drinkers will even use filtered or bottled water, to assure even more purity. If you have hard water or old pipes, or chlorinated water in your home, you may want to consider that as well.

It is important to have the right temperature for the water as it comes out when you are brewing your coffee. Ideally, it should be between 195 and 205 degrees. If the water is hotter than that, the coffee may become too bitter, and if it is too cold, the water will not be able to absorb all of the flavor from the ground coffee, and after the first ounces, the coffee will be weak and distilled tasting.

If you are one of the few people today who still press brew their coffee, make sure you let the water sit for a moment or two in order to reach this optimal temperature.

It is always a good idea to use a hot coffee carafe in your coffee machine. You can do this simply by putting hot water into it and let it stand a while before you put the carafe back in the coffee machine.

Picking the proper coffee grind for your coffee will be one of the most important steps toward a perfect cup of brew.
Even though it may say it on the label, there is really no such thing as an all purpose brew. If you are using a press pot, you will need a completely different kind of brew than you will if you are using an electric coffee maker. For optimum results from a press pot, buy coffee beans and grind them just before brewing. You can obtain an inexpensive grinder that will work just fine to get the medium to coarse grind (grinding for 10 seconds) that works better with this type of coffee brewing. If you are grinding for an electric coffee pot, you will have to grind a little longer to get a finer grind (15 to 20 seconds) that works better in an electric pot.

Johnathan Bakers
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-improvement-articles/get-the-best-coffee-117916.html

Many people find that they gain weight as they get older. It seems to be a fact of life for many of us; as we age we put on a few pounds. It’s no secret that our metabolism starts to slow down as we age; even as early as age 30. However, there does seem to be a simple secret weapon that can prevent the pounds from creeping on as we get older.

It’s no secret that Asian countries have far lower incidences of overweight and obesity than most other parts of the world. And, even as they age, Asians don’t seem to put on the age related pounds that plague many cultures. And, of course, it’s no secret that Asians drink large amounts of green tea.

And, there seems to be a connection between these two facts. Green tea has been reported to have many health benefits, including preventing disease and weight gain. Green tea consumption has been shown to reduce the risk of many forms of cancer, lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease. Green tea has also been shown to help regulate insulin, which may help prevent or control diabetes.

Other studies have shown that green tea can help with weight loss, as it seems to speed the metabolism and promote fat loss. Green tea seems to have a unique ability to promote thermogenesis, or fat burning.

For these reasons, it seems that being a lifelong green tea drinker may mean that you have less chance of putting on a few pounds each year as you get older. In addition to the abundant anecdotal evidence available by comparing the statistics on obesity in Asian countries to that of European and North American countries, there is also quite a bit of research to back up the theory that drinking green tea regularly over a period of years may lead to lower weight and less body fat.

One particularly interesting study on this subject was conducted by the Department of Family Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital in Taiwan. This study looked at over 1200 subjects, both male and female. They compared the tea drinking habits of the participants and evaluated their percentage of body fat and body fat distribution based on waist to hip ratios.

Waist to hip ratios are important because we know that fat carried around the hips and waist are more likely to lead to heart disease than fat carried on other places on the body.

The study concluded that tea drinkers were less likely to have an unhealthy percentage of body fat, and were more likely to have positive waist to hip ratios. In fact, those participants who had been tea drinkers for more than 10 years showed an average of 19% less body fat and a waist to hip ratio of 2.1% less than that of non-habitual tea drinkers.

But even those participants who had been habitual tea drinkers for just six months showed improved statistics over those participants who were not habitual tea drinkers.

This study denoted several factors that appeared to have either positive or negative effect on a person’s body fat percentage and body fat distribution. The factors they rated were as follows:

Smoking – Smoking was associated with higher body fat and higher waist to hip ratio.

Age – Older Age was associated with higher body fat and higher waist to hip ratio.

Body Mass Index – Higher body mass index was associated with higher body fat and a higher hip to waist ratio.

Pre/post menopausal – Pre-menopausal women were more likely to have a lower percentage of body fat and a lower waist to hip ratio than post menopausal women.

Habitual Tea Drinking – Habitual tea drinkers had lower waist to hip ratios and lower percentages of body fat.

Physical Exercise – Those who exercised regularly had lower percentages of body fat and lower waist to hip ratios.

So, as you can see, there are several lifestyle factors that affect whether or not your weight creeps up as you age. Of course, age itself is a factor we can’t control, as is going through menopause.

However, what we can learn from this study is that getting regular exercise, refraining from smoking and drinking tea regularly throughout your life can help you avoid gaining weight as you get older.

Adding green tea to your diet is a simple way to help protect your health and prevent weight gain. As more and more research has revealed green tea’s health benefits, it has become easier to find. Today, green tea can be found in loose or bag form for brewing at home and bottled form for those who want convenient chilled green tea.

Even those trendy coffee houses now offer a green tea selection on your menu. And, if you can’t get enough of a dose of green tea by drinking it, there are green tea supplements on the market that carry the anti-oxidants of green tea in pill form. But, no matter how you choose to get your dose of green tea, just be sure you get it!

Marcus Stout
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/long-term-green-tea-consumption-and-body-fat-114569.html

Online dating – or at least meeting women online – is a whole different ball game than traditional ways of meeting women, at least for the average single male. The good news is that there are certain things a man can do to boost his online success and bring it from the internet to the real world quickly and smoothly.

Online dating starts with your profile, and there are some definite things a man can do to catch a woman’s eye – or of course, to make her move right on past you. Keep in mind that women think differently than men do about most aspects of life. You’re sitting at your computer, pounding out your profile and trying to imagine exactly what a) women want to hear and b) is at least fairly close to the truth about yourself! So most guys end up saying things like, “Surely women will surely want to know what a great guy I am, how sweet and considerate I am and how I love my dog….” WRONG. Do you know what women ACTUALLY think about that? “Great guys” do not need to make you believe that they are great. Their “greatness” shows through in what they write and how they make a women feel – and if you need to say you are wonderful, then you are probably NOT.

So how do you exude “greatness” without stating it? The key is using a little humor to create attraction, which will LEAD to her thinking you are a “Great Guy”. Try implying instead that you are really choosy, and that you’re trying online dating as a last resort because all the beautiful women you meet are boring and shallow. In doing this, you will be doing several things simultaneously – you are creating a challenge that most women with self-esteem cannot help but accept, you have told her without stating it directly that you CAN get women, you’re not despondent and you have demonstrated your alpha male status by showing that you do not simply take whatever comes your way – you can BE picky.

The next step will be emailing the woman. Most people try to tell their entire life story in the first email to someone they meet online. If she has emailed you, bust her balls on something she wrote in the email and get her phone number or a time to meet her at the local coffee shop. Don’t ask her – tell her! Say, “Girl, give me your number” or “Hey, meet me at Stone Mountain at 2:00 on Saturday”, etc. If you are emailing HER in response to her profile – make it short and a little challenging – not complimentary or relating your attraction to her in any way. Write something like, “I noticed you said you candle-light dinners, is that because you are afraid he will see you chewing with your mouth open? C’mon, give me something I can WORK with here!” Then see what happens.

Then, step three, you’ve got to take things OFF the internet as quickly as you can. Once you have the interest of a woman, get her phone number, get a date set up or meet her for coffee as quickly as you can. Not to be weird or aggressive or anything, but simply because the internet methods of communications – email, IM, texting, whatever, are really…dry mediums of communication. Lots of miscommunication can happen – not to mention she may be lying to you about what she looks like or who she is. So move it from the internet to the real world as fast as you can. One great way to do this and to still allow the woman to feel safe it to propose meeting for coffee or lunch. This is very “non-date-like” and will probably get her agreement a lot faster than proposing to take her to a bar on Saturday night where you can get her drunk and then try to take her home.

Maureen Arnold
http://www.articlesbase.com/dating-articles/3-great-tips-on-meeting-women-online-110022.html

If you are a human being reading this article then you have tasted and know what iced coffee is. But iced coffee is not what you are thinking it is. You are perhaps thinking that after making a hot cup of coffee, bringing the decoction down to room temperature, and then chilling it in the refrigerator constitutes a simple iced coffee. You could not be more wrong! No doubt iced coffee is a variant of a hot brewed coffee, but there is a method to make it, a method that is different from the way a hot coffee is brewed.

Making Iced Coffee The Original Way

Iced coffee actually refers to an old method of making cold coffee. Hot coffees are hot-brewed, but if you want to make iced coffee the way it was made when it was started, then you have to cold-brew the coffee. Yes, you read that right – You do not need to heat coffee if you want to make an iced coffee. There are cold process coffee systems available in the market that need no technology and no electricity. All you need is a special pot, cold water, and coarsely grounded coffee beans!

Just pour the cold water in the special pot and dump in the coarsely grounded coffee beans. What will happen is that the cold water will extract the coffee flavors but will not extract the bitter compounds and the fatty oils that are present in the beans. This means that the iced coffee, which is made, will have less acid content than what it would have had if it were hot-brewed. Coffee made using this method was originally called iced coffee. This method was invented in 1962 by a chemical engineer, Todd Simpson, and his company is still around today (It’s called Toddy Products).

Iced Coffee: Tips And Tricks

Here are a few tips and tricks you can use to enhance your iced coffee experience: (i) Put some of the coffee you’ve made in the freezer and make ice cubes out of it. Want to experiment further? Maybe you can add a wee bit of sugar syrup and a little chocolate flavoring. Result: Great ice cubes that you can suck on! (ii) If you choose to make iced coffee using the hot-brew method, then you must get the coffee into the refrigerator once it reaches room temperature. If you allow it to get colder than that, then it may lose its flavor. (iii) Add whipped cream to your iced coffee and shake it up nicely in a cocktail shaker. This will make the drink look frothy and attractive and, who knows, your friends and neighbors might regard you as an iced coffee expert!

Masni Rizal Mansor
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/guide-to-iced-coffee-112602.html